Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

Excellent signed proof impression. One of about 75 proof impressions printed in the completed state of the plate.

£795

Memory of Clavering 1934

Original etching.

Signed proof in the third state of the plate – this is widely regarded as by far the most desirable state of this etching.

SOLD

Launds 1928

Original etching with additional pencil working.

Unique touched proof impression with pencil alterations, inscribed by F.L. Griggs “Touched on lefthand trees” and with pecil arrows in the margins indicating the areas of additional touched work.

SOLD

Fotheringhay 1932

Original etching.

Presentation proof in the rare first state of the plate.
Inscribed by F.L.M.Griggs “To Lily – June 1935 from Nina & Maur”
numbered “2” (encircled) and signed “F.L.Griggs” in pencil, verso.

SOLD

One of the towering figures of British 20th-century etching, the deeply religious Frederick Griggs achieved through his etchings a truly poetic vision of architecture in all its silent, spiritual beauty. Unlike any other etcher he created the perfect monastic landscape in an ideal vision of an earlier and better England. F.L.Griggs’s etchings are the product of meticulous workmanship and scrupulous printing, the quality of which has rarely been equalled.